Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.
Friday Reading Edition 56 (30th April 2021)
While Nation State subterfuge is by its nature a notoriously opaque area of research due to high levels of classify cation, this study offers unique insight and informal reports acquired from publicly available information (such as whistle-blowers and insider leaks reported in the press), as well as analysis of more than 200 known incidents between 2019-2021.
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Friday Reading Edition 56 (30th April 2021)
The events of last year (2020) emphasised the role technology such as Edge Computing can play in helping organisations to adapt and respond quickly and efficiently to unprecedented situations. This new report sets out why we need to work together to realise the full potential of Edge Computing – computing that's done at or near the source of the data.
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Friday Reading Edition 55 (23rd April 2021)
This report provides an overview of modern slavery in the UK and explains how the UK has responded to this threat over the last 12 months.
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Friday Reading Edition 55 (23rd April 2021)
What the Modern Slavery Act 2015 means for, what the offences are, and what should be in your organisation’s modern slavery statement.
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Friday Reading Edition 52 (1st April 2021)
US President Joe Biden’s supply chain executive order is a significant risk management mandate. It’s also a signal that the Biden Administration is focused on systemic risks – like the systemic risk and failures we’re all living through with COVID and its far-reaching impacts across our economic, business, political and social systems.
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Friday Reading Edition 49 (12th March 2021)
This report shows how Insuring Women’s Futures – a programme established and led by the CII in collaboration with a wide variety of leading insurance professionals, businesses, policy and third sector organisations and experts on issues relating to women’s risks – has transitioned to a wider societal and professional agenda, with long-term impact on government policy, societal support and commercial response.
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Friday Reading Edition 48 (5th March 2021)
Gives an overview of the key announcements in the Spring Budget and how these may impact your business, as well as insights on whether the measures could kickstart business investment and growth, essential to economic recovery, and concluding with a look ahead to the economic picture as UK firms begin to re-open. [webinar recording]
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Friday Reading Edition 48 (5th March 2021)
The exceptional circumstances of the past year have forced the Chancellor of the Exchequer to tread a fine line between revenue raising and continuing to support struggling businesses, individuals, and the fragile economic recovery. The main fiscal measure of note was the announcement of a 6% rise in the rate of corporation tax, though still leaving the UK with the lowest headline corporation tax rate among the G7 countries.
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Friday Reading Edition 47 (26th February 2021)
This paper draws on these successes and identify gaps in response to focus on an emerging third objective. How do we prepare for future pandemics? The next pandemic is likely not a new virus or plague, but a mutant strain of Covid-19 that is more deadly, more transmissible or resistant to antibodies – or all three.
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Friday Reading Edition 47 (26th February 2021)
This session will help support you through the next phase, giving you expert insight and intelligence to continue adapting, and providing the guidance you need to restart and boost your business, and build resilience for the new normal.
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